On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 19:20:43 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > > No, you don't have to. It can stay at ".1" forever; if you update > > something for devel and/or a release distribution just increase the > > portion left of the disttag -- that's what we do in any case. > > which is just the same as not having any disttags at all and led to > the pain before the disttag. It's painless. Package is only updated when somebody maintains it. The longer it isn't touched by any maintainer, the older its timestamp gets, and old %dist tags in the filename can be spotted easily. On the contrary, unattended rebuilds cause pain and try to push unmaintained packages under the carpet. [...] As a side-note, I've understood thl's hack, but I don't like it for cosmetical reasons and because of the fact that it compares alpha-numerical dist tags with "1" which sounds wrong to me. It also opens the door to accidental and superfluous builds for "Released Updates", since a "make tag build" would tag and rebuild an unchanged package with the changed %dist. In short: 1.0-3.fc7 => 1.0-3.1 (forced rebuild with %dist changed at beginning of F8 devel cycle) => 1.0-3.fc8 (accidental make tag build after F8 release) Perhaps koji already rejects such requests, but EVR problem checkers won't recognise that 1.0-3.1 in F9 devel is out-of-sync with F8 Released Updates, since 1 > fc8, and overall, this hack with %dist has potential for more confusion than I like. All that only to change filenames? =:-O -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
